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NEWS. 
Dr. D. H. Scorr has been elected president of the Royal Microscopical 
Society for the ensuing year. 
EMILE Laurent, professor of botany in the State Agricultural Institute, 
Gembloux, Belgium, died ex route from a fever contracted while recently 
visiting Sierre Leone. 
PROFESSOR HUGO DE VRIES, of Amsterdam, will give a series of five lec- 
tures at the University of Chicago, August 22-26 next. He lectures earlier 
in the summer at the University of California, but we are not informed as to 
details, 
WILLIAM M. Canby, of Wilmington, Delaware, died on March Io at 
Augusta, Georgia, while on a visit to the South for the benefit of his health. 
The name of Mr. Canby is a very familiar one to American taxonomists, and 
it stands to them not merely for one of our best-known older botanists, but 
for a friend who was always genial and helpful. | 
_ THE SESSION of the biological laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute for 
1904 will be held at Cold Spring Harbor, beginning July 6 and continuing six 
weeks, under the general charge of Professor C. B, Davenport of the Univer: 
sity of Chicago. Instruction in cryptogamic botany will be given by Professor 
4 S. Johnson and Mr. A. H. Chivers, and in plant ecology by Mr. Forrest 
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'n the arid region of New Mexico, Arizona, and California. The work w 
be carried on during the coming summer, with headquarters at the Desert 
Botanical Laboratory at Tucson, Arizona. 
THE SEASON of the Minnesota Seaside Station for 1904 begins about the 
The botanical work will be under 
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upon the anatomy and classification of the liverworts and mosses of the 
region. Miss Josephine E. Tilden will give courses upon algae, 
Albert Schneider will offer work upon the lichens, and will also give lectures 
upon bacteria and nitrogen assimilation. 
THE SEVENTEENTH session of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods 
Hole will begin June 1 and close October I. The instruction in botany con- 
Sists of a course on thallophytes from June 29 to August 10, which will be given 
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